Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Plymouth City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
5,068 approved · 480 refused · 334 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Jan 2021 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
2 Hartley Park Gardens Plymouth PL3 5HU
Received 11 Nov 2024Haystone Place Plymouth
Received 11 Nov 20243 Home Park Plymouth PL2 1BQ
Received 12 Nov 20242 Seymour Road Plympton Plymouth PL7 4NY
Received 12 Nov 2024Derriford Hospital Derriford Road Plymouth PL6 8DH
Received 12 Nov 2024Airport Business Centre 10 Thornbury Road Plymouth PL6 7PP
Received 12 Nov 2024Civic Centre Armada Way Plymouth PL1 2AA
Received 12 Nov 2024Land Adj. 11 Roborough Avenue Plymouth PL6 6AG
Received 12 Nov 202492 Devonport Road Plymouth PL3 4DF
Received 13 Nov 2024291 Ham Drive Plymouth PL2 3NH
Received 13 Nov 20246 Russell Avenue Plymouth PL3 5RA
Received 14 Nov 20244 Nelson Gardens Plymouth PL1 5RH
Received 14 Nov 202440 Mills Road Plymouth PL1 4NF
Received 14 Nov 2024934 Wolseley Road Plymouth PL5 1LB
Received 14 Nov 2024112 Pemros Road Plymouth PL5 1NG
Received 14 Nov 2024Wadlands, Tamerton Foliot Road Plymouth PL5 4NJ
Received 14 Nov 20244 Apsley Road Plymouth PL4 6PJ
Received 14 Nov 2024110 Furneaux Road Plymouth PL2 3EY
Received 14 Nov 202426 - 28 Cornwall Street City Centre Plymouth PL1 1LP
Received 15 Nov 202426 - 28 Cornwall Street City Centre Plymouth PL1 1LP
Received 15 Nov 20243 Basin, HMNB Devonport Plymouth PL2 2BG
Received 15 Nov 20249 Rogate Drive Plymouth PL6 8SY
Received 18 Nov 202414 Amados Close Plymouth PL7 1SW
Received 18 Nov 202459 The Knoll Plymouth PL7 4SJ
Received 18 Nov 2024Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Plymouth City Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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